As I said, I use the laptop to access the forum but I now take all pictures with my phone but load them to the laptop to resize before uploading, too easy to make mistakes when using the phone (for me anyway).
Andy.
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My desktop computer has a big screen so I tend to use that for threads where there are photos. General chit-chat stuff I'll use the phone.
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Jakko,
I don't know how it is where you are, but the number of public telephones in the UK has dropped drastically. Of the six that I remember locally, I believe that there's only one now. With the majority of people having mobiles, they're unused - so they disappear! If I'm out & about, then to get a taxi, you have to have a mobile.............
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I subscribe about the difficulties to live in today's western society without a mobile, but I still have a phone that only "phones". I will not concede to the "smart" ones as long as I can (at least until the end of its battery lifetime...).
By the way, I use a desktop computer to join the Forum.
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My 'phone' is pretty fancy-ass, and of a size and speed which makes it ideal for tinternet (on unlimited data). The only thing I don't really use it for is phone calls as I'm not keen on people.Comment
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I have an old outdated HP PC on my desk, however over the past couple of years I have moved my whole tech across to Apple, so now my iMac M1 24" talks to my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air via the cloud.
I think you might say, I love tech :smiling3:
I started using computers with a ZX Spectrum back in the 80's.Strength isn't about what you can do, rather it's about overcoming what you thought you couldn't do.Comment
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That’s better than around here. I looked it up, and until 2008 it was required by law that there be at least one phone box per 5000 inhabitants (which, at the time, would have meant a minimum of about 3200 phone boxes nation-wide), and it was generally a fair number more. The village I live in, for example, with about 1500 people 30 years ago, had at least a dozen distributed over three or four locations.
In 2015, there were apparently 440 phone boxes left in the entire country, and you can bet many of those have since been removed too.
A long time ago already (pre-smartphone, I think), I was watching Have I Got News For You on which Paul Merton commented that he didn’t have a mobile phone. “Why not?” he was asked. Because, he said (and I paraphrase), if you need one, there’s always someone nearby anyway that you can borrow one from
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I never had the opportunity to use a BBC, A or B, did they have an operating system or was it all code?Strength isn't about what you can do, rather it's about overcoming what you thought you couldn't do.Comment
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They had an OS in order to work but not in the same way as Windows and the like with desktop icons. So when you turned it on you were just met with a blinking cursor..... You then either entered the code for whatever program you wanted to create or loaded them in from cassette tape or large floppy disks (very expensive). The BBC published a series of magazines on a monthly basis that taught you how to programme alongside their accompanying TV programme.
Dave.... Apologies for the slight tangent.Comment
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Not at all - I had a Spectrum 48K+ - which had a proper full sized keyboard, and I had a Microdrive with it!
Must have bought it in the Mid 80s - I seem to think it was around £200 - not cheap, but that was my intro to computers. To think, I bought a 400Gb Windows 10 machine as backup last year for £75!
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Desktop PC for interacting with website. Ultrawide screen, need it for my eyesight these days.
Phone for checking it sometimes when out and get a notification that a thread I am watching has been updated. The phone presently has a 100GB limit per month, and is used in tether mode for most of my internet as the home connection manages approx 2.5mb/s due to distance from exchange.
Tablet ( which to me is just a big phone or small laptop ) once in a blue moon.
Tangent thread: Started with a Spectrum16k with rubber keyboard (1982, one of the launch models, bought directly from Sinclair Research, saved a lot of money to get it), learned to write basic programs on that, then proceeded thru Spectrum 48k ( microdrive added later ), Sinclair QL, Atari 800xl/130xe plus disk drives, Atari STM, Northern Telecom Vienna desktop with 20meg HDD ( IBM PC AT Clone ), and then numerous self build PC's.Comment
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